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American Impressionist
As a concept, “American Impressionism was always oxymoronic, like, say, Canadian salsa”: surely this sentence is too good to be true?
Jun 27
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Brad Skow
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Book Review: Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Jun 20
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Brad Skow
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Opposition to Reason in Conservative Thought
“Conservatives are opposed to Reason”: a good summary, if one that makes for bad PR.
Jun 13
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Brad Skow
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"Everywhere, the spirit of equality prevails"
Henry Hulton served as Commissioner of Customs in Boston from 1767 to 1775.
Jun 10
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Brad Skow
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About The Author
The author was born in California, and ever since, he has associated west with toward the ocean.
Jun 6
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Brad Skow
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May 2025
All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing by Timothy Steele: Review and Refutation
Part 2 of Theory of Meter
May 30
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Brad Skow
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Poets on Poets: Kirsch on Graham and Ashbery
Free verse often leaves me cold: my dirty little secret.
May 25
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Brad Skow
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Hans Fritzsche at Nuremberg
This poem is part of the series Interviews With Vampires.
May 22
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Brad Skow
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Recent Advances in Knowledge of God
Time was, philosophers were skeptics, looking down on the poor benighted masses, who think their opinions are knowledge when they really aren’t.
May 18
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Brad Skow
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Philosophers on Film
In Damien Chazelle’s film Whiplash, Andrew Neiman, a drumming student at Schaffer Conservatory, is called to join Terence Fletcher’s studio band.
May 15
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Brad Skow
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Theory of meter: introduction to an introduction
Part 1: against feet revisited
May 11
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Brad Skow
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Hans Frank at Nuremberg
This poem is part of the series Interviews With Vampires.
May 8
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Brad Skow
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